A reader writes:
I know about the “.htaccess” file as a way of protecting entire directories, but I’m wondering if I can use the “.htaccess” file to require a username and password in order to access a single file while allowing the rest of the directory to remain open?
This is a kinda tricky one, but it was based on some inspiration I got when working on my Real Life Debt Weblog: could I figure out a way to incorporate weblog data into non-blog pages? The answer is, yes!
For this experiment, I decided that I’d like to have a new sentence on the intuitive systems home page that always showed the two most recent entries in my intuitive life weblog…
A friend writes:
I’m finding that some number of people are hosting my Janet Jackson
“movie” by simply linking it in from their sites, meaning *I* get to
pay for the bandwidth. Is there some way to prevent this?
A reader writes:
Your intuitive.com site (which I love, by the way! great site!) has a custom error page when I enter a bad URL. I’ve seen that elsewhere too, but don’t really know how to do it. Any hints?
A young reader writes:
“Hey Dave! I’m trying to explore tons of web sites to see how they’re built and keep bumping into restrictions because my folks installed a “nannyfilter” on my computer. Is there some way to get around it so I can make my own decision of what sites to visit?”
A reader writes:
“Help! I cannot view source code. I select it from the menu, but nothing comes up. Further, I cannot save pictures in their original format. I right click to do “save picture as” and it only provides me with a .bmp extension. What’s going on?”
A reader writes:
Can I place a Microsoft Word doc on my website for download? It works when I
test it on my hard drive; but doesn’t work once I FTP it to the website.
if your browser shows the little icons next to URLs – in which case you should see a lightbulb next to the booktalk URL right now – then you might be asking yourself how you build these favicon.ico graphics and incorporate them into your own Web site.
